Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

102 c   (MUCHA, ALPHONSE.) Vérola, Paul. Rama: Poème dramatique en trois Actes. 5 plates by Mucha, hand-colored, plus chapter decorations. 8vo, rebound in 1 / 2 green morocco gilt, top front hinge starting; top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in; slight repair to inside wrapper. number 267 of 385 copies on vélin . inscribed and signed by vérola to the french author and critic gaston sauvebois . Paris: Bibliothèque Artistique et Littéraire 1898   [500/750] 103 c   (LEFLER, HEINRICH; and JOSEF URBAN.) Musaeus, J.K.A. Die Buecher der Chronika der drei Schwestern. Full-page lithographed illustrations, elaborate pictorial borders, some colored and heightened in gilt, plus black-and-white decorations throughout, by Lef ler and Urban. Square folio, 395 x 400mm; 15 1 / 2 x15 3 / 4 inches, publisher’s original decorated blue cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed with some loss, joints and edges a bit rubbed, few bumps; occasional light marginal spotting and soiling). Rodenberg S. 280; Thieme-Becker XXII 559; Schug 462. Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1900   [2,000/3,000] The Jugendstil masterpiece, printed in a small edition by the Reichsdruckerei in Berlin as a representative piece for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris. The book’s designer, Paul Voigt, used the square format, popular in Vienna at the time, and employed a Gothic sensibility and typography to create this celebrated work. 102 103